The Internet of Things is being established nowadays, and the deployment of devices to be
interconnected with each other and to the Internet is becoming a more common issue. The …

Microsystems with capabilities of acoustic signal perception and recognition are widely used
in unattended monitoring applications. In order to realize long-term and large-scale …

A self-powered triboelectric accelerometer miniaturized to the micro-scale is presented. This
micro triboelectric accelerometer (MTEA) was fabricated using CMOS-compatible …

With the rapid development of wearable electronic systems, the need for stretchable
nanogenerators becomes increasingly important for autonomous applications such as the …

A self-powered micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) inertial switch has been proposed
for potential wake-up application without additional power consumption. In comparison with …

Micromechanical photoswitches (MPs) have shown orders of magnitude lower standby
power consumption compared to their solid-state technology-based counterparts. In this …

The explosion of the Internet of Things has dramatically increased the data load on networks
that cannot indefinitely increment their capacity to support these new services. Edge …

This paper reports on the first demonstration of an infrared (IR) wireless sensor node (WSN)
with near-zero standby power consumption. The prototype presented here employs a …

Recently there has been a significant increase in demand for wireless sensor networks, as
their field of application is rapidly expanding, driven mostly by the growing importance and …

This paper reports the performance characterization of a wake-up nano-gap gas sensor with
ultra-high-sensitivity due to its dependence on the electron tunneling distance that was …